How can a zombie movie be so boring?

Rating: 3/10 (12 July 2003)

With the exception of a couple of sequences, specifically the opening and penultimate, this a surprisingly boring movie. The violence and suspense we'd expect from an end-of-the-world/zombie move are mostly absent and have been replaced with an uninteristing commentary on family and civilization-- think "Lord of the Flies" (of which both versions are better than this snoozer). I suppose the reason for all the mundane scenes of shopping, eating, driving, sleeping, etc., are to make the "exciting" and "suspenseful" scenes more "exciting" and "suspenseful," but instead this is just a stunningly boring movie.